Preparing the image fileRaspberry Pi must boot from SD card which the bootloader is installed. I'm download the Raspbian “wheezy” (Debian-based Linux distro) image file from official homepage which is recommended by Raspbian Pi.

To write the image file to SD card I'm using Image Writer for Windows (Win32DiskImager)

Select the correct drive from Device and choose the 2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.img as shown in

figure below

Click on Write button to start writing image file to SD card

Remove the SD card from computer once writing completed.

Connecting the Raspberry PiAccording to the Raspberry Pi datasheet, it should not connect the power to the USB port of computer since it draw about 700ma while computer USB port can only provide 500ma max. So I use my own Samsung handphone charger as the supply for Raspberry Pi.

I'm using an AV cable (RCA) to connect the Raspberry Pi video output to my Samsung TV (AV1 input) which does not have HDMI input.

Finally insert the SD card to the slot and a USB keyboard is used to connect to the USB port of Raspberry Pi.

Booting and Launching desktop GUI

Turn on the power, wait about 40 seconds to let the Raspberry Pi booting up

A configuration menu shoud appear and you should make your own selection

You should enable SSH from the menu (SSH is enabled by default, you don't have to change this). In the future, you still able to enable SSH from terminal command line with the following code.